So after work today, I went looking for evidence that New Yorkers celebrate mardi gras. I saw this instead . . . seal?

Not! Unless seals these days carry flashlights and trail markers and have a support

vessels like Linda Ann, herself supported by W. O. Decker and Peking.

Here is one of a series of six posts I did five years ago about Peking, which moved across the bay that day. And half a year back, here‘s a post I did about W. O. Decker and Helen McAllister‘s last waltz. And Wavertree . . . I regret that in my dozen years wandering the sixth boro, Wavertree has not ONCE left the dock. I know some of you must have fotos . . . and good memories of her moves, but I have none.

BUT . . . click here for a mystery vessel with three masts square-rigged in a foto I was given some years back. Anyone want to take a stab at identifying it? The conclusion a few years back is that the foto is “‘shopped,” although it was done some years ago.

My guess is that someone was inspecting Wavertree‘s wet side.

Later I thought I saw a mermaid . . . but I struck out again.

And for the record, after 1700 hr on the E train I finally saw some mardi gras beads . . . worn by a couple going to a party. I had to ask.

All fotos today by Will Van Dorp.

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